Garment-supporter



(No Model.)

. G. H. PHBLPS.

Garment Supporter.

N0. 232,413. PatentedS'eptfZ, 1880.

y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE HPHELPS, OF WEST NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,413, datedfSeptember 21, 1880.

` Application inea April 5, reso. (No moda.)

To 'all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, GEORGE H. PHELPS, of West Newton, county ot' Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, havein vented an Improvement in Garment-Supporters, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to garment-supporters wherein a pin is employed to secure the fastening device to one part ofthe clothing and a second pin is employed to enter the garment to be supported.

My invention consists. essentially, in a garment-supporting device having a wire pin to enter the garment to be supported and a second spring-wire pin located or placed substantially at right angles thereto, b v which to support the said fastening device by means of another garment worn by the person. In this my invention I prefer to make both ot' these pins of a single piece of wire, held together centrally by a metal clasp.

Figure lis ai'ront view ot' one of my improved garinent-supporting pins. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof. Fi 3 is a detail, show` ing the single wire composing the two pills. Fig. 4 is a detail ot' the sheet-metal clasp before it is bent in the form represented in Figs. l and 2. Fig. 5 is a modification, wherein the two pins are made of a single piece ot' wire. Fig. 6 is a modification wherein the pins are made, ot' separate wires. Figs. 7 and S are modiiications wherein two pins are shown at the upper side of the supporting device, the said gures showing front and partial rear views thereof.

In Figs. l to 4, a represents a piece of sheet metal bent on the dotted lines represented in Fig. 4 to form lips b c, to co-operate with the pointed legs of the pins d e. I prefer to form these pins d cot' a single piece of wire bent double in parallel lines l, and having'one end, 2, bent at right angles to this doubled portion to forni the pin e, and the other end, 4, turned into a spring or coil, 3, and then eX- tended toward the initial bend to form the pin Las represented in Fig. 3, a piece of sheet metal. being secured thereto by means of portions f g, bent around parts of the wire, as represented in 2.

In Fig. 5 the wire is itself bent to form the lips b c to co-operate with the pointed legs ot' the pins d and '6, forming part ot' the same wire 5 but in this gure the sheet-metal plate is made quite small, it simply serving to hold the different members of the one piece of wire in proper position.

In Fig. 6, the sheetmetal piece, instead of having the portions g I), has two lugs, hc', to receive the leg 2 of an ordinary safety-pin, j, having a lip, lr, to hold its pointed leg.

In Fig. 7 the metal plate a is shaped to receive the central part ot' a wire bent to form two pins, d d, to be engaged with lips b at the ends ofthe frame.

In Fig. 8 I have shown two safety-pins connected with portions of the metal plate at its ends. In all these gures the pins e servelike purposes, as do also the pins d.

I do not broadly claim a pin with two pointed wires located in the same line or two pins parallel each with the other.

I claim- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a garment-supporting device composed ot' a sheet-metal plate and two pointed spring-wire pins, located the one at right angles to the other, as shown and described, one pin being adapted to secure the device to one garment and the other to enter and support another garment.

2. In a garmentsupporting device, two pointed spring-wire pins made from a single piece ot' wire bent double and again at right angles at one end, and bent reversely at the other end, as shown, in combination with lips b 0 to co-operate with the pointed legs of the saidpins, as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresencc of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE HENRY PHELPS.

Witnesses G. W. GREGORY, ARTHUR REYNOLDS, 

